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    Ray Martin
Executive Director | email
 
Ray Martin serves as Executive Director of Christian Connections for International Health. He has served on the Board of Directors since 1996 and as Executive Director since 2000. He has 45 years experience as an international development and public health specialist managing the design, implementation and evaluation of large health and population programs.  In a 25-year career with USAID, he was chief of the Health, Population, and Nutrition offices in Zaire, Pakistan, and Cameroon.   He also served in Ghana and Morocco with USAID.  From 1992 he worked several years on African programs as a public health specialist at the World Bank.  He was recently the Chair of the 1600-member International Health Section of the American Public Health Association. His international career began as a Mennonite volunteer in community development in Somalia and in refugee development in Tanzania. He has a B.A. in economics from Goshen College, Indiana, an MPH degree from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and completed the course work for a Master’s degree in economics from Vanderbilt University.  He is fluent in French.  
  
 
Nancy Young
Operations Manager | email
 
Nancy Young is a returned Peace Corps volunteer (Lithuania) who has connected with a rural Tanzania community to support their efforts to improve health care, education, IT, and economic development.  She has a BA in medical sociology and MA in health information management. For her graduate final applied project, she developed a model data collection system for tracking encounters with traditional providers in developing countries.  Nancy is Vice President of Medical Technology Partners, a consulting firm that specializes in market positioning for emerging medical technologies.  As part of this effort, she develops knowledge management tools for multilevel audiences, assesses clinical trial designs for cost-effectiveness criteria and endpoints, and performs qualitative and quantitative surveys and analyses.  Nancy is currently assisting CCIH with administrative and operational needs.
 
 
 
Mona Bormet
Project Manager | email
 
Mona Bormet serves as Project Manager for CCIH’s Policy & Advocacy efforts. Previously, Mona served as Advocacy Program Specialist for the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, where she focused on national policy efforts to improve data collection and analysis for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations, and efforts to collect and share individual’s health care stories in the policy arena. She also served as a Health Policy Fellow for Congresswoman Lois Capps of California and as an intern with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention. Mona earned her MPH from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, where she served as Student Senate President. Mona’s love of people, culture and food extends from her roots of growing up Korean-American in the suburbs of Chicago to the many people she is fortunate to meet and learn from.
  
 
 
 
      Amy Metzger
Project Manager | email
 
Amy Metzger serves as Project Manager for CCIH's family planning technical support grants, working closely with the CCIH FP/RH working group on activities to further engage and strengthen the capacity of CCIH members in this arena. Amy's graduate concentration is in International Health from Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, where she received her MPH. Amy's global health portfolio includes the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the Division of HIV/AIDS and STIs, health research in the department of International Health at Rollins, malaria research with Dr. Richard Semba of Johns Hopkins University, health technical support at FOCAS and Compassion International, as well public health consulting projects.
 
 
 
Sophie Savage
Communications & Media Specialist | email
 
Sophie Huber Savage serves as the Communications & Media Specialist for CCIH. She recently worked as the Student Outreach Coordinator and was responsible for maintaining and expanding all student contact, outreach, and student/young professional-related programming. Having studied abroad in Uganda and Rwanda, Sophie's first introduction to the significance of global health was in an IDP camp in Northern Uganda where she assisted in water, sanitation and hygiene training for a community struggling with an outbreak of Hepititus. She also worked on grassroots agricultural development research in a rural northern district of Rwanda. Sophie received her BA from Houghton College in Communications and Intercultural Studies, concentrating on International Development. 
 

 
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